Wallasey

Wallasey is a large town on the mouth of the River Mersey on the tip of the Wirral. The town is built up of seven townships (Liscard, Seacombe, Egremont, New Brighton, Wallasey Village, Poulton and Leasowe) these villages all grew into each other when the Queensway Tunnel under the River Mersey from Liverpool opened in 1934.

Related Topics:
River Mersey - Wirral - Liscard - Seacombe - Egremont - New Brighton - Wallasey Village - Poulton - Leasowe - Queensway Tunnel - Liverpool

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Liscard is the main shopping centre, and a popular place to shop is The Cherry Tree Shopping Centre. New Brighton, which developed from 1830 with the ferry link to Liverpool, featured the tallest building in Britain, the New Brighton Tower, between its completion in 1898 and its demolition in 1919-21. New Brighton became one of the most popular holiday resorts in north-west England, but declined into the 1969, at the end of which the remaining Tower buildings and the ferry service to Liverpool were lost. The Promenade Pier, which dated from the 1860's, was closed in the 1970s and finally demolished in 1978.

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The transportation links to Liverpool are very good. Every 20 minutes a bus leaves New Brighton and travels through the Kingsway Tunnel, Seacombe is the home of one of the Mersey Ferry terminals and New Brighton & Wallasey Village have a rail link into Birkenhead and Liverpool Lime Street Station. From Poulton the M53 motorway leads through the Wirral peninsula to Chester and the M56 to Manchester Airport.

Related Topics:
Mersey Ferry - Birkenhead - Liverpool Lime Street Station - Chester - Manchester

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Fort Perchrock and Liscard Battery were built in the area to protect shipping on the Mersey.

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Fort Perchrock - Liscard Battery

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